Non-refillable bottle.



No. 742,592. PATENTED 00T. 27, 190s.

' H. A. CLINTON.

NoN-REFILLABLE BOTTLE. APPLICATION FILED JULY 23,' 1903.

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No. 742,592. Patente@ october 2v, 190e.

UNITED, STATES arsN'r HENRY A. CLlNTON, OF NEWVARK, NEW JERSEY.

NON-REFILLABLE BOTTLE.

SPECEFIOATIN forming part of Letters Patent No. 742,592, dated October2l?, 1903.

Application filed July 23, 1903. Serial No. 166,694, (No model.)

To all whom, t may concern: of any suitable material; but when itis madeBe it known that I, HENRY A. CLINTON, a from glass the outer surfaceofthe said casing citizen of the United States, and a resident of of thesaid auxiliary or supplemental stopper 55 Newark, in the county of Essexand State of may be ground and made to meet the ground 5 New Jersey,have invented a new and useful inner surface of the neck. The saidcasing Improvement in Non-Rellable Bottles, of is of such formationpthatit will tightly lit in which the following is a full, clear, and exactthe neck of the bottle and lconform to the description. shape of theinterior of theneck.v 6o

The purpose of the invention is to providev The casingof the auxiliaryor supplemental lo a simple and economic form of device adapt# stopper Dis open at the top and at the boted to be firmly secured in the neck ofany or- Vtom and at the bottom is provided with an indinary bottle,which device is so constructed ner annularrlange 10, formingaseatforaballas to admit of liquid being freely poured out valve 11. Near thebottom portion of the 65 from the bottle, but which will prevent theupper section d' of the said casing a spider I5 bottle frombeingreiilled and offered a second 12 is secured, and above the saidspider an intime as an original package. terior annular iiange 13 ispreferably made The invention consists in the novel conintegral with thesaid upper section d', as is struction and combination of lthe severalshown inAFigs. 1 and 2, which upper iiange 13 7o parts, as will behereinafter fully setV forth, constitutes a seat for an upper ball-valvezo and pointed out in the claims. 14. This upper ball-valve 14 has astem 15,

Reference is to be had to the accompanying which extends downwardtherefrom, termidrawings, formingapart of thisspeciiication, nating,preferably, in a head 16, and when in which similar characters ofreference indithe two ball-valves 1l and 14. are seated the 75 catecorresponding parts in all the figures, head of the stem of the uppervalve 14 is 25 Figure 1 is a vertical section through the brought inclose relation or in contact with upper portion of the body of thebottle and the lower valve 11, thus preventing the said its neck,together with a vertical section lower valve from accidentally shiftingand through the improved -device secured in the from being reached by awire or like device. 8o neck, the bottle being shown upright. Fig. Inorder that an ample space may be pro- 3'o 2 is a view similar to thatshown in Fig. 1, the vided for the exit of liquid between the lowerbottle being shown inclined or in a position to ball-valve 11 and theinner wall of the lower pour out liquid. Fig. 3 is an enlarged transorbody section d of the said casing of the verse section taken practicallyon the line 3 3 auxiliary or supplemental stopper, longitudi- 85 of Fig.1, and Fig. 4 is also an enlarged transnal ribs 17 are produced on theinner face of 35 verse section taken practically on the line the saidlower or body section D, as is illus- 4. 4 of Fig. 1. trated in Figs. 1,2, and 4.'. When the cork A represents the body of a bottle of ordiormain stopper C is removed from the neck nary type; B, the neck, and-Cthe cork, which of the bottle and the bottle is inclined to a 9o is madeto close the top or mouth portion of greater or a less extent, the upperball-valve 4o the neck in the customary manner. 14 will drop outward,becoming unseated,

D represents what maybe termedavsupple- 'and will fall outward until thehead 16 of its mental or auxiliary stopper, which is lostemY is broughtinto engagement with the catedbelowthe cork C. This auxiliary stopperspider 12, whereupon the lower ball-valve 11 95 D consists of acylindrical casing constructed will roll to the upper end of the sectionin 45 in two parts,abodysectiondand an uppersec-l which it is located,ypermitting the liquid in tion d', the two sections being detachablyconthe body of the bottle to flow freely outward nected, preferably by athread connection, as through the aforesaid valve device. As soon isshown in Figs. 1 and 2. The casing, conas the bottle is restored to itsupright posiroo sisting of the said sections d and d, after the tion thetwo valves -11 and 14 immediately 5o sections have been connected issecured in seat themselves.- The arrangement of the the neck of thebottle by cement or other valves is such and the valves bear suchrelameans. The said casing maybe constructed tion to each other that itis impossible to force liquid into lthe bottle for the purpose ofrefilling the same, even when the bottle has been heated to formsubstantially a vacu um therein.

The improved auxiliary valved stopper is exceedingly simple, it isdurable and effective, and it is economic and can be readily introducedand secured in the neck of any bottle.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patentl. An auxiliary stopper for the neck of a bottle,comprising a casing adapted to be secured in the neck of a bottle andconstructed of detachably-conuected sections, the upper section havingan upper valve-seat and the lower section a lower valve-seat, the uppersection being provided with a spider below the valve-seat therein, aball-valve adapted to be normally seated on the lower valveseat, and anupper ball-valve on the upper valve-seat, a stem connected withthe/upper ball-valve, adapted to extend down substantially in engagementwith the lower ballvalve, passing through the said spider, and a head atthe lower or inner end of thel said stem, for the purpose set forth.

2. An auxiliary stopper for the neck of a bottle, comprising a easingadapted to be secured in the neck of a bottle and constructed ofdetachably-conuected sections, the upper section having an uppervalve-seat at about its middle portion and the lower section avalve-seat at its lower end, the upper section being provided with aspider at its lower end, a ball-valve adapted to be normally seated onthe lower valve-seat and an upper ballvalve onvthe upper valve-seat, astem connected with the upper ball-valve, adapted to extend downsubstantially in engagement with the lower ball-valve, passing throughthe said spider and a head at the lower or inner end of the said stem,the said lower section of the casing being provided with longitudinalribs which keep the lowervalve spaced from the major portion of thesection of the casing in which the said lower ball-valve has movement,as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

HENRY A. CLINTON. lVitnesses:

J. FRED. ACKER', FRANCIS N. DEDE.

